Why not allow empty code blocks?

[Gregory Ewing]

BartC wrote:
> (Yes everyone uses T*a (pointer to T) instead of T(*a)[] (pointer to 
> array of T), because, thanks to how C mixes up deferencing and indexing, 
> the former can be accessed as a[i] instead of (*a)[i].
> 
> But it's wrong, and leads to errors that the language can't detect. Such 
> as when a points to a single element not a block:

This is an implementation issue, not a language issue.
A sufficiently pedantic implementation could and would
detect this kind of error at run time. Most implementations
of C are not that pedantic, but you can't blame the
language for that.

-- 
Greg